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The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-12-06

Her splendid executive ability and her
shrewd management enabled her TO rapidly
cancel the debt hanging over her, but her
last $4,000 came near wrecking her and
undoing all she had done. This final payment
came due when she was unable to meet it.
Not TO have paid it was to let the business
pass into other hands. Fortunately, a
wealthy lady, of Brooklyn, who was i'm
pressed with her eancstness and struck
with her courage, came to the rescue and
the large debt was cancelled Light was
seen through the darkness and her path to
success was clear. 1t was a question Of
but short while TO reimburse her noble
helper, and she was in absolute possession of
a business worth hundreds of thousands Of
dollars.
Mrs Leslie has travelled extensively over
u e world and has received distinguished
consideration everywhere. She wears the
decoration Of the orders Of several foreign
governments and is almost as much at
home in Venezuela or France as she is in
America She is beautiful, bright, shrewd
and remarkably intellectual, and her buoy
ancy Of spirits and generous and sympathet-
ic nature wins admiration for her every
where she is known.
This is the success of the Louisiana
beauty, Miriam Florence Folline, the
youngest OF family Of seven children.
She is ''only woman" but hers has been
a wonderful career.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-12-06
EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT.

IT IS SAID that Mr.. Robert Louis Stevenson
is better looking than American artists make
him out to be. We are very glad to hear this.
ACCORDING TO THE New York Herald
weather prophet we are TO have plenty of mild
weather before Christmas.
THE PAPERS ARE asking if it is true, as re-
ported, that Mr.. Blaine is going to Japan next
year. 1t is not he is going up Salt creek, and
he can't we'll make both trips in the same year.
AT THE AUTHORS readings in New York.
James Whitcomb Riley, of indianapolis, made
the greatest success. We are glad of it.
Riley is the coming man. What he writes has
the American ring to it.
A RECENT AUTHOR says: 'The first king of
France was Phoramond, an imaginary being
who never existed. He was succeeded by his
SON. 1t is wonder that such man was not
succeeded by his daughter.
AT LEAST THERE is one locality in the wide
world where prohibition prevails, and that is
on the waters Of the North sea. BY an agree!
ment recently entered into by the powers of
Europe, the sale of liquor to fishermen and
sailors in that sea is prohibited.
SENATOR PALMER, OF Michigan, urges the
republicans Of that state to make prohibition
the rallying cry of the party. He thinks it is
the greatest issue now before the country, and
republicans. However, that party is loath to
catch on.
Hon. WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE, the great
English statesman will, it is said, visit Amer
lea during the coming year. His physicians
have advised him to take an ocean voyage on
account of his health, and he has determined
to visit America, the desire Of visit to which
he has long since cherished. His dread of the
ocean voyage has prevented him from making
the trip, but he has now overcome this.
The STANDARD OIL COMPANY is measuring
strength with the interstate commission. The
question to be settled now is, which is 1he big
gest the Standard Oil company or the govern
ment Evidently the former has an opinion
that it is.
Don CARLOS, OF the Spanish bourbons, now
claims to be the rightful king of France.
Nobody objects to his claims SO long as hs
keeps out of France and behaves himself
WHEN SIR MoRRELL MACKENZIE, the famous
English surgeon, made the dread announce
ment to the crown prince of Germany of the
nature of his disease, it was received with per-
feet composure. The prince, after moments
silence, put out his hand and said 81 have
been lately fearing something of the sort T
thank you, Sir Morrell, for being so frank with
me-"
THE NEW YORK EVENING Posi- has publishs
ed very ingenious argument demonstrating
that the new voters will turn the tide of cleo
ton in SO. By the new voters it means those
who have come of age since 1884. The Post,
evidently, takes it for granted that the repub-
licans have corner on this business. Butt
the Post says, lit remains to be seen whether
this vote will be gained if the republican
party renomlnateS the man who lost New York,
Connecticut and Indiana in 1884,
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Have we ever given you foolish advice?
Have We ever deceived you? Well, now,
take this suggestion
In subscribing for THE CONSTITUTION
send $1.65 which will get you, not only TIE
CONSTITUTION, but the Southern Farm a
whole year.
The Southern Farm is under the direction
of II. w. Grady and is edited DIR. W. l..
Jones. 1t is the best farmers magazine
ever printed. DR.. Jones's Thoughts for
the Month"; and his "Farm Inquiry Box"
are alone worth ten times the subscription
price.
Think of it! for $1.65 You get THE Con
sTITUTIoN and the Southern Farm whole
year. This makes you happy for16 You
will find in every issue OF the Southern Farm
some facts about farming from DR.. Jones or
the other editors worth ten times what you
pay for the whole year. Send $1.65 and get
these splendid papers. Then you are fixed
happily for 1888!
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With the meeting of congress the presi-
Dental battle Of 1883 opens!
Whether the government shall remain in
democratic hands, or be turned over to re-
publicans, this must be setted--and the
fight opens with congress. Every inteli-
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In subscribing for a newspaper, get the
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THE CoNsuruTIoN is the best paper you
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ii is the only twelye-page weekly printed,
and the only paper that has such contribu-
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Others.
Think Of the features of THE CoNsTITU-
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The world is our field, and an earthquake
in the South Seas and n moonshiner's fight
in north Georgia are reported equally well.
Besides the news we give you all the poll
cost us nearly $50 letter. There is DR..
Jonos's admirable talks on farming that are
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readers. There are the Talmage sermons,
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There is Mrs. King with the Woman's
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There are the weekly stories, sketches.
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not ten thousand negroes in the whole south
would have been left to tell the story Of the
Instruction. All there was in the John
Brown movement, as Mr.. Reed very clearly
sees, was the sacrifice of the blacks to the
insane whims of a professional horse-thief
and assassin.
"Another serious error Of the time," Mr.
Reed truly says, twas sympathy for
Browns mania because Of a report that it
was caused by the killing of his son before
his eyes by Missouri border ruftians in tha
Kansas conflict. Even to this day, many
are unwilling to receive the true history that
Brown perpetrated most atrocious murders,
which had no relation to the free state
cause, nor to the defense of the settlers. y
To this remarkable scription-remarka!s
BILE because it is the truth wrenched from,
the bosom of one of the most consistent res
publicans in the country-Mr. Reed adds !
"He (John Brown) made the disorder in
Kansas q cover for his robberies and mur,
ders, and when these had driven him out,
he appeared to the abolition sect of the east
as hero of the free-state cause, which he
had DETAINED by his crimes.'
just how James Redpath and F. B. Sam
born will receive this salty restatement Of
the truths Of history remains to be seen;
but neither of them viii be bold enough to
traverse Mr.. Samuel r. Reeds facts.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-12-06

THE CONSTITUTION has, upon occasion,
made some very salty remarks in regard to
the attitude of what may be called the John
Brown 'cult'' at the north. There are a
number of people in that section who do
not hesitate to compare the career of this
American horse-thief and assassin with the
life and character of Christ, and THE Con-
sTIrUTIoN has not hesitated to criticise this
sacreligious tendency as severely as it
seemed to deserve.
We have been pleased to find great
number of original abolitionists and mod
ern republicans who are anxious to
agree with us in our estimate of John
Brown, but none of them have come as
near hitting the mark as Mr.. Samuel r.
Reed, of the Cincinnati Commercial Ca
zette, who has been making some remarks
about John Browns career. Mr.. Reed goes
great deal farther than THE CoNsTIrU-
TIoN has ever gone, and he is what NAV be
called typical modern republican, man
with ideas and with a plentiful supply of
words in which to express them.
He says that if John Brown had a sane
plan in his invasion of Virginia, it was to
incite a general uprising of the slaves,
with all which such rising implied of
the letting loose of the mad passions of the
blacks in massacre of the whites, and the
erection Of negro empire, in san Domingo
fashion. upon the determination of the
white race" Mr.. Reed goes on to say that
if John Brown had q sane plan, it was to
procipitate the negroes into q massacre Of
the whites, (which would surely be fol-
lowed by their own slaughter by vengeance
from which all mercy had been eradicated.
and a renewal of slavery, from which all of
the kindly domestic relations that had soft
ened the condition would have departed"
This is, indeed, pretty tough talk. COM
ing as it does from stalwart republican.
but it is the truth somewhat softened. As
a matter of TACT, if John Browns plan had
been q sane plan, and had been successful,
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A Question of Ivory Supply.

A comparatively new ivory field has been
discovered in the recently developed region
OF the upper Congo, in Africa. Ivory
in small quantities has been received
from this section before, but the greater part
of the supply has heretofore been received
from fields which have well nigh become
exhausted. The Upper Congo will now be
hunted for its full yield, but it will not be
many years at the present rate of use, be-
fore the ivory supply will be reduced to such
an extent that it will become exceedingly
scarce and hard to reach.
The activity of the African ivory trader
has almost extcrminated the elephant, and
like the American buffalo, the species is
rapidly becoming extinct. Though the
many substitutes now manufactured to take
the place of ivory are coming into general
use, the demand for the real ivory increases
steadily, and as the supply decreases, its
price grows proportionately larger.
The days OF the elephant seem to be num-
bercd
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-12-06
EnrnlinY In .Lnnnn.

Carter Harrison, the distinguished ex-
mayor of Chicago, is travelling in the east
and writing letters to one of his home
papers. lie has been studying Japanese
farming, and tells what he knows about it,
lie says everything there is carried on on a
very small scale, and with such wonderful
niceness, that it is difficult to realize that
farming is the business of a life and very
earnest and hard one at that There are
no barns or outhouscs in which to store
crops. There are no farm houses. The
people live in villages or in towns. Some of
the farms are not even one acre in size,
and very few contain more than ten acres.
The notable feature of these Japanese
farms is the irrigating ditch, A farm of
two or three acres usually has half dozen
levels, and the water that irrigates one
field runs down to irrigate another. The
farms have the appearance of American
market gardens. The soil is dry and thor
oughly prepared. The plow is used only
for throwing up the beds, and all the dig
gmg is done with spadclike hoes and forks.
No weeds whatever are allowed to grow in
the little fields, and every foot of ground is
utilized.
The Japanese farmer takes every advan-
tagc of the seasons, and practices true
economy. One crop succeeds another with
unyarying regularity, and Che benefits of
rotation are thoroughly understood and
realized. While one crop is ripening am
other one is planted between the rows, and
this practice is carried on even in the tea
a d f.N..e
small tumips and other crops are
planted between the rows MS soon as the July
plucking is completed.
The management of the Japanese farm
ers is so thoroughly scientific that lands
which have been in cultivation for centur-
les continue to produce maryeously large
crops. 1t is said that Buddhism has dis
Outraged the growth of animals within The
limits of the empire, and, as a result, there
are not two millions of horned cattle in the
country though the grasses on the hills would
feed millions. The acons and nuts in the for
csts would feed millions of hogs, but there are
no hogs in Japan. "Fhere are 10 staryclngs
in Japan Mr.. Harrison declares. "The
children are as fat and jolly rs little curly
tailed pigs; the young lads and girls give
no evidence Of not having enough to eat
They are all rounded in form and 1.-THE in
action, and the men and boys are capable of
enduring active labor and fatigue as few
others can do. They are possibly not MS
muscular rs our intoxicating men, but not
day passes that l do not see some man
whose muscular development is source of
admiration, ana others whose powers Of en-
/ dulGnco are simply marvellous"
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-12-06
The Murder OF Young Hightower.

If there is any law in the land it should
detect and punish the murderer of young
Hightowor.
The facts need no comment. A young
man of good character is standing by the
door of his home. A crowd of half drunken
men pass. They ask him, 'were you wet or
dry" He replies, 'Iwas dry" The crowd
passes on for few steps, when some one
turns, whirls rock at him, strikes him on
the head, fractures his skull, and he dies.
This murder was not only unprovoked,
but it was open. There were twenty wit
nesses to the murder. There is no reason
why the murderer cannot be detected and
punished.
What does the chief of police say? What
do the city detectives say? What do the
city authorities say? Shall the wanton muir
der of this young man on the open street, in
the presence of crowd, pass uninvestiga-
ed and unpublished?
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-12-06
s Onthern IumlCr.

The Northwestern LumbennSn calls at
tention to the fact that during the past few
months there have been numerous and
heavy investments in southern timber land.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat, refer
ring TO this statement, says that the larger
share of attention has been directed to the
long leaf pine lands of Louisiana, Missis-
sippi and Alabama. Investments have been
made in these lands by Michigan and Chi
cago men.
The purchases of these large tracts have
not been made for speculative purposes, but
for the development of southern lumber in
terests. The supply of the principal south
ern woods is not equal to the demand, and
it is the purpose of the investors to increase
the supplN
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-12-06
Congress Must Protect the treasury.

One Of the most important issues which
the coming congress will have before it is
that of settling the pension question.
This occupied much of the time of the
last session, and but for the opportune veto
of the president, the government would now
he paying millions OF dollars more than it
now does TO an immense class of stipendary
citizens. That the government should PEN
sion those Of its soldiers Who were disabled
in service and whose miirmities are attribu-
table to the wounds or exposure of war, is
eminently right and proper mdiscriminate
pcnsioning beyond this is an injustice to
every taxpayer in the country.
There is no earthly reason why the people
should be taxed to pay a pension to every
soldier who served during any Of the wars
OF the Union, unless by injury or misfortune
brought about by service, pensioning is de
served and needed. To give an idea of the
general distribution Of the benedciaries Of
the governments pensions, the public prints
only few days ago noted the fact that Hon
W. II. Morrison, of Illinois, had Written a
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-12-06
A woman's success.

The remarkable success Of Mrs. Frank
Leslie, the head of the great New York
publishing house of that name, is notable
example of what determined woman can
do when She makes up her mind.
Hers has been wonderful career ana
now that she has succeeded In thoroughly re-
establishing the shattered business left by
her late husband, ana has placed her yalua-
bic Interests on firm and profitable basis.
her triumph over the many obstacles which
were in the way OF her success, deserves the
recognition 20 which her impcrturbable on
crgy is entitled.
The legacy left her by her husband. at
his death, few years ago, was debt Of
$685. on the hUsin IS of the publishing
house. In short while she was involved
IN numerous law suits, and had 10 contend
with several claimants for the management
OF the great concern. One suit after an.
o'her Was ended in her favor, and after two
years in court she found herself the l,nlis.
pu'ed head Of the Leslie establishment.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-12-06
Concerning DYNAMITE,

1t may be that the dangerous character of
dynamite has been greatly over-estimated.
An expert who was recently interviewed
bya st. Louis Globe-Democrat reporter, said
that dynamite was perfectly harmless, until
a percussion cap was used with it. In bulk
the stuff can be shipped and handled with
out danger.
1t explodes only by conclusion, and per
cussion cap is used for the purpose. A
dynamite cartridge may be dropped on a
brick floor with impunity. When the explo-
sive is fixed up in the shape of bomb, it
must be fred either by fuse or percus-
sion cap.
1t is well to hare these little matters I'M
derstood, as we go along. In this way peo-
pie win escape not a little nervous appre-
hension, and they will know how to deal
with dynamite when they have to use it.
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You subscribe for the paper, pay
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The National Poultry and Bench show.

The extraordinary success of the first Ma
tional Poultry and Bench show, held in this
city year ago, win attract exhibitors and
visitors from all parts OF The country to the
second exhibition which takes place in Jan
uary.
The poultry industry is one of the largest
and most Important in the country. The
simple fact that it costs no more to hatch
a@d raise chickens that will weigh eight and
ten pounds than chickens that will weigh
four 70 six pounds, and no more to keep q
hen that win lay 220 eggs year than one that
Will lay half as many, is worth thousands of
dollars to our people. At the exhibitions
are shown turkeys that viii weigh from so
TO 05 pounds, geese and ducks twice as large,
harder and more prolific than the ordinary
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ln'his country the English sparrow is
playing havoc with the fruit crop, and
in Australia the rabbi, nuisance is looming
up as the greatest evil Of the day.
The Australian authorities have offered a
reward of Sl25. ooO for any process that will
exterminate the rabbits. Thus far ordinary
means have failed. Dogs have been en-
ployed, and small armies Of men have been
engaged for years in fighting Brer Rabbit